The Mets Police

Thanks Bobby V!

Bobby Valentine is in the house!

Can you recognize him?#LetsRumble pic.twitter.com/qRRikiaQIP

— Rumble Ponies (@RumblePoniesBB) August 19, 2018

Well look at this…

END 6: Mets 4, Blue Jays 2. Gene Cone breaks the tie with a 2-run double in the 6th! David Wright finishes his day 2 for 3 with 2 singles and run. He played 5 innings at third base. #STLMets

— St. Lucie Mets (@stluciemets) August 19, 2018

And he has played what four or five times this week? That’s as much as Mickey lets Rosario play.

Is it possible he might actually make it all the way back to the Mets? Wouldn’t that be AMAZIN’

👀 David Wright's first hit today for the @stluciemets pic.twitter.com/Gr1OzUCDxJ

— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) August 19, 2018

👀 David Wright's second hit for the @stluciemets today pic.twitter.com/no3myBqydU

— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) August 19, 2018

I really thought we had seen the last of him…..or is this when I think the middle seat on my airplane is truly going to be open and then one last fat person with 8 million bags shows up two seconds before the door closes?

Maybe in a season where everything sucked we could get a JDG Cy Young and the return of The Captain?

I’m starting to believe….as a Mets fan that never ends well…..

 

I’m not THAT lazy…I started working on this post at 8:30 this morning,  but the site had some issues that took me….checks watch…4.5 hours to fix.  Sheesh.

Anyway, it is Todd Frazier coronation day!

You may not know this, but Todd Frazier (who is from New Jersey) once played in the LLWS!  I know, right?  This never comes up.  I hope ESPN mentions it.  Anyway

At 1:50 today Little League International will make special presentation to Todd Frazier and Michael Conforto, both of whom are alumni of the Little League Baseball World Series, at Lamade Stadium.

Then at 2, Little League International will hold a special press conference with all three LLBWS Alumni –Frazier, Conforto and Kingery – at the Media Interview Room inside Lamade Stadium.

Tonight’s game is at SEVEN not 8.  Now isn’t that interesting?  Somehow MLB has the ability to play SNB at 7pm.  More on this later, I am running 5 hours behind on posts.

The Mets will wear this

@NikoMetsPlus @metspolice @Mediagoon pic.twitter.com/TBMHDgAAQP

— Tommy hom (@Hom713) August 18, 2018

 

 

SLACKISH REACTION:   Jacob deGrom threw the first No Reliever of the 21st Century.  This is when the manager doesn’t make four pitching changes, and is more rare than an unassisted quadruple play (that’s where a fielder makes an unassisted triple play but then goes for the 4th out in case someone challenges the play.)    JDG is now second on the All Time Mets Franchise List of No Relievers with one, trailing of course only Tom Seaver who did it twice a week for ten years but really baseball doesn’t suck now.  Congrats to JDG!

Speaking of stud pitchers…

Hey that’s Matt Harvey…is he throwing a no-hitter (last night)????  You should read the recap!  TDK is now 6-7 with an ERA under 5 and would be the Mets #2 starter.

Happy Birthday to….

Happy Birthday Ron Darling (@RonDarlingJr). DYK you were 1st #AllStar pitcher who was born in #Hawaii? That, and more, are on #BaseballAlmanac (https://t.co/upsQ1oIu11). #Mets #Expos #Athletics #Yale #GoldGlove #Game7Stud #AuthorGreatBook pic.twitter.com/JZzR0lBi4X

— Baseball Almanac (@BaseballAlmanac) August 19, 2018

 

And that’s a wrap.  Sucks this went out 4 hours late as it was a good one.  Sigh.

Another episode of the world-famous Harvey Days is here, and tonight’s episode sure is a doozy.

Unlike the other games that Harvey’s pitched in (which have been relatively uninteresting — it’s the Reds, after all) this game was against Madison Bumgarner and the Giants, which provided a weird sense of nostalgia.  Had this game been in 2013, it would have been  the game of the week.

Unfortunately, the TV Announcers were thinking the same thing, as they spent multiple innings discussing Harvey’s fall from stardom, and compared it to Bumgarner. It was Frazier-from-NJ-who-played-in-the-LLWS level annoying.

Harvey started off shaky in the first inning, allowing line drives on three ball counts, and it looked like it was going to be one of those “Harv” nights instead of a TDK one.

After a quiet second and third, Matt got into some trouble in the fourth inning. After a fielding error and a walk, Harvey balked for the first time in my memory, which lead to this reaction:

 

He then (un)buttoned his jersey and got a clutch strikeout and a quick pop out.

There were some quick words between Harvey and the umpire regarding the balk, but nothing transpired beyond that.

It was at this point that I realized that Harvey had a no-hitter going. It took until the fifth inning for me to realize that as he never had his dominant stuff, just his average repertoire mixed in with a little bit of luck.

Even the look on his face when the TV guys realized there was a no-hitter going on was abnormal for Matt.

When I saw that look, I began to root for him like we all used to. After his well-spoken press conference in Queens, he’s taken on this persona as the wounded bird trying to find his way, and to a certain extent, it’s worked.

Dare I say, Matt Harvey is likable again.

Unfortunately, Hi3to3y was not meant to be, as it was broken up in the sixth inning by a weak ground ball that was beaten out.

 

A few more outs, and Harvey’s night was done, 6.1 IP, with 4 H and 5 K. Not the world’s best line, but still the best start Matt’s had all year, which lowered his ERA to 4.91.

He walked back into the dugout to a huge standing ovation.

Yeah and let’s ask for state funds and stuff.  I like the part that they can’t play in a stadium built in 1997.  I am calling #ChiefsFansUnited to wear bags on their heads.

Baseball fans can look forward to a major upgrade of Syracuse’s minor-league stadium if Onondaga County officials can pull together a renovation project that could cost $25 million or more.

Source: To keep Mets in CNY, Onondaga County seeks $25 million-plus stadium renovation | syracuse.com